It's pretty obvious what would happen when MS buys Yahoo!:

• Search is already handled by Bing, no change there.
• Mail is migrated to hotmail/live.
• Flickr, groups: MS doesn't have an alternative for those. They'll add in a lot of developers to port it to Windows servers.
• Zimbra either gets spun off, or is killed.
• Most Yahoo! technical staff leaves while the BSD infrastructure is replaced by Windows.

In 5 years time, nothing is left of Yahoo!

Also from Belgium, using the regular ISP DNS.

No problem accessing thepiratebay.com. www.thepiratebay.com forwards to depiraatbaai.be, which points to the same site.

Manual memory management is tedious and error-prone. You need to add your destructor calls in all the right places, taking into account all possible program flows. Any mistake results in a memory leak or a crash.

Not if you have shared objects.

And you still don't understand the environment you're working on? That's sad.

In Belgium, you only have to use the blinker when exiting the roundabout, not when entering (makes sense: it's the only way to go).

If only drivers would learn to do that...

On a roundabout, cyclists are often in a car's "dead angle", where the driver can hardly see them.

Also, the PPro is the basis for the Pentium II, III processors. It's one of Intel's most successful CPU designs. It was so good that Intel went back when they ran into problems with the Pentium 4. (Creating the Pentium M and Core 1 processors.)

I'm working on a project where the translations are handled like that. We send all texts to an external company, and a few hours later, they send back the translation. This seems to work relatively well.

The next phase involves immediate translation without human intervention. I'm curious as to how that will work out.

No, but the root prompt will be £ instead of #.

My TomTom showed me the disclaimer the first time I switched it on. They seem to assume the device is only used by a single person who is capable of remembering the warning.

I used to have an in-car GPS that made me click through the disclaimer each time I used it. So instead of pushing one button, I had to push GPS and then OK. (And then wait until the system was loaded.)

You can use a.com (or any other single letter) for that.

I checked a couple of (English) books in my library, and all of them used single spaces after a sentence. Except for The TeX Book. (I didn't check other TeX-related books, but I guess they would do the same.) AFAIK, English is the only language that used to have the "double space after a sentence". To me (a non-native English reader), using 2 spaces in a monospaced text just looks weird. In a book, it doesn't distract that much.

In typesetting, there is no such thing as "two spaces". There is just space between words, and that space would be larger or smaller in order to justify the line. Some spaces (like the ones after a sentence) would be made larger or smaller to keep in line with special typesetting rules.

The concept of whitespace as a character didn't exist before computers, where it was needed to keep words apart.

You can get over being bullied. It just takes a lot of work. If you're bullied hard enough to be damaged, you will eventually understand you have a problem. When you finally search for help, you will notice there are dozens of therapists who are trained to deal with your situation.

On the other hand, bullies do not have a reason to change. They get a job and continue to harass the weaker employees around them.

Bullies don't grow up, they just grow older.

Belgium has an opt-out system. You can register on the site and then you won't receive any phone books anymore. (I just filled out the form, thanks to this article.)

I can't remember when I last used a full phone book: they're too large to find anything.

There is also a local business guide for each town. That one is small enough to be used, and it's useful whenever you need any service in your neighborhood (say, a plumber).